All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 7 2018 // New Jersey’s new push to sue people and companies responsible for pollution has environmental groups applauding and business interests raising questions and concerns.After two terms of Republican Chris Christie,...
Aug 7 2018 // Ironshore’s Construction Industry group, in conjunction with Ironshore Specialty Casualty, has enhanced its coverage for designers and contractors. The specialty program offers contractors pollution liability on an...
Aug 6 2018 // The North American subsidiary of a French chemical manufacturer and two senior staff members were indicted in connection with last year’s explosion at the Crosby, Texas, plant in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.Arkema...
Aug 6 2018 // Reliance Partners has added John Seidl as VP of Risk Services in its Chattanooga, Tenn., office.Seidl is a former Wisconsin State Motor Carrier Trooper and FMCSA Investigator with more than 20 years of experience in risk...
Aug 1 2018 // Federal officials have announced a $2.2 million proposed settlement with CSX Transportation to resolve the company’s liability for water pollution violations stemming from a train derailment that caused an oil spill...
Jul 31 2018 // A U.S. appeals court will reconsider its decision to throw out a $210 million nationwide class-action settlement for owners of Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. vehicles whose fuel economy was inflated.The 9th U.S....
Jul 26 2018 // A U.S. unit of Brazilian state-run company Petrobras agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged toxic emissions from its Pasadena, Texas, oil refinery, the company said.The settlement, which is subject to...
Jul 26 2018 // While Donald Trump has positioned himself as a tough, “law and order” president, he has mostly excluded one group of offenders from his sights: those of the corporate class, according to a report released...
Jul 25 2018 // Burns & Wilcox, a wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager, has hired Jeffrey R. Cunningham to its New York City office as a senior broker in its Environmental Insurance practice.Cunningham previously served...
Jul 17 2018 // Brett Kavanaugh could add a powerful new voice on the Supreme Court to restrain what government agencies can do, ushering in a new era of tougher scrutiny of federal regulations loathed by businesses.In a dozen years on...
Jul 13 2018 // It’s summer in America, and that means action-packed movies, piles of hot dogs and plenty of ice cream. But according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by a consumer food-advocacy group, if your choice of ice cream is Ben...
Jul 12 2018 // Some of Europe’s largest banks are unveiling plans to lend and manage money in greener ways as pressure mounts to account for risks associated with climate change.“It is coming, it’s a trend that’s...
Jul 12 2018 // An Arkansas company will pay $38,000 in the settlement of a gender pay discrimination case brought by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The EEOC reported that TrueCore Behavioral Solutions, a manager of...
Jul 11 2018 // A federal appeals court on Monday upheld Volkswagen’s $10.03 billion settlement with the owners of nearly 500,000 polluting diesel vehicles announced in 2016.The three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of...
Jul 11 2018 // Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto Co. by cancer survivors or families of those who died can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, finding there was sufficient evidence for a jury to hear the cases that...
Jul 10 2018 // The state of Maine is locked in a legal battle with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a pair of American Indian tribes about the way clean water standards apply in and around tribal lands.Maine is arguing in the...
Jul 2 2018 // Cassie Brown has been appointed Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation.She succeeds Ryan Brannan, who left the division on May 1....
Jul 2 2018 // New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood, joined by Attorneys General Xavier Becerra of California and Brian Frosh of Maryland, has led a lawsuit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for...
Jul 2 2018 // Those interested in risk management are starting to take climate change a bit more seriously.The evidence is anecdotal, but for that proof one can just ask Phil Renaud, executive director for the Risk Institute at Ohio...
Jun 28 2018 // West Virginia regulators have issued two additional violation notices to the Mountain Valley Pipeline project.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the two additional violation notices to the pipeline project are for water...